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| For observation, how do you perceive objects or events? |
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| By employing your five senses |
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| What are inferences basted on? |
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| prior knowledge rather than on direct observation |
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| The bones are 10cm long. Is this example an inference? |
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| The bones are fragile. Is this example an inference? |
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| How is a statement testable? |
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| if evidence can be collected that either does or does not support it |
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| Forming a hypothesis is only useful when? |
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| What must often be done to a hypothesis? |
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| it must be refined and revised or discarded |
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| What is a statement made in advance that state the results that will be obtained from testing the hypothesis? |
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| testing a hypothesis or prediction by gathering data under controlled conditions |
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| What is an independent variable? |
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| what the experimenter uses or changes to produce results |
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| Observations and measurements are taken for a particular factor in both groups. What is this factor? |
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| What is quantitative data? |
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| What is qualitative data? |
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| What involves placing observations and measurements (data) in order? (graphs, charts, tables, or maps) |
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| What are made on the basis of facts, not observations? |
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| What are conclusions often drawn or gathered from? |
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| data or from a study or experiment |
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| What should a conclusion support? |
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| What should a conclusion be? |
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| What is the basis of communication? |
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| Scientists must share the results of their studies with other scientists (peers) and must publish finding in journal. |
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| What may be formed after many related hypotheses have been tested and supported with experimental evidence? |
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| A broad and comprehensive statement of what is thought to be true that is supported by considerable evidence. |
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| What is a statement of fact that concisely explains an action or group of actions? |
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| They are accepted to be true, universal, and may be expressed as a math equation. |
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| Organization is the high degree of order within an organism's internal and external parts. A cell is the smallest unit that can perform all of life's processes. |
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| This is a physical or chemical change in the internal or external environment. Organisms must be able to respond and react to changes in their environment to stay alive. |
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| The maintenance of a stable level of internal conditions even though environmental conditions are constantly changing. |
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| This is the sum of all the chemical reactions that take in and transform energy and materials from the environment. |
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| All living things grow and increase in size. Development is the process by which an organism becomes a mature adult. |
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| All organisms produce new organisms like themselves in this process. |
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| The ability of populations of organisms to change over time is important for survival in a changing world. |
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| What kind of organisms have cells that are specialized to perform specific functions? |
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| What is the sum of all chemical processes? |
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| What is an organism's tendency to maintain a stable internal condition? |
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| What are examples of homeostasis? |
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| All living things that grow and increase in size |
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| What is the process by which an adult organism arises? |
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| What is the series of changes that an organism undergoes during it's life? |
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| What occurs as the result of cell division and cell enlargement? |
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| What is the formation of two cells from a pre-existing cell? |
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| What is the process whereby an organism produces more of it's own kind? |
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| Reproduction is not essential to survival of individual but is for what? |
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| What is it that detects and responds to changes in light, heat, sound, chemical, and mechanical contact? |
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| What does the Change Through Time equal? |
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| What does Favorable characteristics that are selected for and passed on to offspring equal to? |
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| What is the process that enables an organism to better survive in an environment? |
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